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Cinq Mélodies

by Émile Nérini (1882 - 1961)

1. Nuit devant la mer  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
[Tous deux, naguère, assis]1 la nuit sur ce rivage,
Nous écoutions pleurer les harpes de la mer :
La mer bondit ce soir, amoureuse, sauvage ; 
Flots qui hurlez, mon cœur comme vous est amer ! 

C'est comme un bruit sans fin de sanglots et de râles, 
Les grands flots vers le ciel montent désespérés :
Et la lune et la mer s'attirent et sont pâles, 
Ainsi que deux amants que l'on a séparés.

Text Authorship:

  • by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, "Nuit devant la mer", appears in L'Illusion, in 1. Chants de l'Amour et de la Mort, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1875

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Confirmed with Jean Lahor, L'Illusion, 3rd edition, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1893, page 44.

1 Devéria: "Tous deux assis jadis"; further changes may exist not shown above.

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 71
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